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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle with four LiDAR sensors. Put another way, the purpose of the MIT project is enhance the utilization of the line-of-sight data already acquired by the Fusion’s sensors to provide augmented predictive capability, especially for pedestrians. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Interest in fusion energy is surging today in response to the world’s desperate need for abundant clean power. However, the standard deuterium-tritium (D-T) reaction at the core of conventional fusion reactors conceals big, long-term problems. “In They also produce little or no radioactive waste.

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MAY 15, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $60 million in funding to 23 new projects aimed at creating highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants and developing prototype technologies to explore new pathways for fusion power. Colorado State University.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The system is a fusion of a GPS (or GNSS, Global Navigation Satellite System) and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) integrating three accelerometers and three gyroscopes, based on a context-aided Unscented Kalman filter for navigation in urban conditions. Sensors Volume: 12 Number: 12 Pages: 16802-16837 doi: 10.3390/s121216802.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. Among those interested parties is NASA. percent efficiency.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a group of new technologies that build up objects, usually by laying down many thin layers on top of each other. million to Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.,to University of Louisville, and 23 others. NIST is also awarding $2.4 Concurrent Technologies Corp.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Sensor Fusion technology is a core component of delivering true autonomous vehicles and is crucial to helping the industry achieve the vision of Zero Autonomous Driving Accidents. in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Invented by Soviet scientists in the 1960s , gyrotons are used in nuclear fusion research experiments to heat and control plasma. Microwaves meet rocks “But an energy beam doesn’t have those kinds of limits,” says Paul Woskov , senior research engineer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

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APRIL 9, 2025

At the Summit, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury backed off of a goal to fly such a plane by 2035, citing the lack of a regulatory framework for certifying such an aircraft as well as the slow pace of the build-out of infrastructure needed to produce green hydrogen at commercial scale and at competitive prices. My first reaction was, really?

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

General Motors recently renewed its five-year agreement with research partner Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh to continue developing technologies that could allow future production vehicles to drive autonomously. Automated driving requires the fusion of input from advanced sensors to provide 360 degrees of crash risk awareness.

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JULY 15, 2023

Brandon Sorbom , the scientific director of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) , leads me toward the center of the building’s cross-shaped footprint, weaving among scaffolding, forklifts, and teams of welders and painters. On the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve base near Boston, an unusual structure is rising from the rolling hills.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Additive manufacturing typically creates parts and components by building them layer by layer, based on a 3D computer model that is virtually sliced into many thin layers. University of Texas at El Paso ($1 million). Purdue University ($999,929). Northeastern University ($999,464).

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Researchers from the University of Bath Powertrain and Vehicle Research Centre (PVRC) in the UK have received a total of £3.2 This develops a new research relationship with TMETC, but builds on two previous TSB projects and a Knowledge Transfer Account that the PVRC have undertaken with Ashwoods. million (US$5.1

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While I did not propose that Google build a nuclear lab, I felt certain that we could contribute in other ways. I proposed a three-pronged effort consisting of immediately impactful fusion research, a long shot focusing on an “out there” goal, and innovation advocacy in Washington, D.C. I had some credibility within the company.

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JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline. Installed in a 2013 Fusion.

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One is the availability, at relatively moderate cost, of copper-oxide-based superconducting tape, which is being produced by a few companies for startups working on tokamak fusion reactors. HTS [high temperature superconductors] are having a moment, because the costs are coming down rapidly, driven by all the work on fusion,” Haran says. “A

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MARCH 10, 2016

Ford, in partnership with the University of Michigan, have been conducting what they believe are the industry’s first tests of autonomous vehicles in wintry conditions. Earlier post.) Winter weather poses extra challenges to some autonomous vehicle sensors. In the United States, the average subscriber of a cellular data plan uses about 21.6

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. Fusion Petroleum Technologies intends to develop seismic data software to complement existing software. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. The University of Stuttgart’s High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany. Fusion: Aorsa, GTC. The DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in Berkeley, Calif.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

An international research team led by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (WIMR) has found that even a sub-chronic low level exposure to particulate matter can have an adverse effect on lung health. These results have important implications for new [building] developments.

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MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) this week will demonstrate the CMU advanced Autonomous Cadillac SRX in Washington, DC. The tracking system comprises two basic layers: the sensor and the fusion layer. The other two images in the second row show those of an urban street. 2014) Click to enlarge. 2014) Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 17, 2025

The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesnt occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. Were building systems that push the limits of robotics and AI, says Wolf.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.) Clemson University researchers will evaluate the feasibility of using wellbore deformations to assess reservoir, caprock, and wellbore conditions. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , Inc.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

The SSI study captures 12 different PEV models from eight vehicle manufacturers, including GM (Chevrolet Volt); Nissan (LEAF); Tesla (Model S); Ford (Focus EV, C-Max Energi and Fusion Energi); Honda (Fit EV and Accord PHEV); Toyota (Prius Plug-in and RAV4 EV); Mitsubishi (i-MiEV); and Daimler (Smart Fortwo ED).

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APRIL 8, 2014

Demonstrate the integration of 50% variable distributed energy resources on distribution feeders with electric vehicles and building energy management systems by 2020 with high reliability and resiliency. Use the national laboratory system and leverage partnerships with universities and industry to conduct mission-focused research.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Gonzalez-Esquer worked with Cheryl Kerfeld, the Hannah Distinguished Professor of Structural Bioengineering in the Michigan State University-DOE Plant Research Lab, and Tyler Shubitowski, MSU undergraduate student. Reducing the number of genes needed to build carboxysomes should facilitate the transfer of carboxysomes into plants.

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MARCH 21, 2024

However, the database search algorithms don’t promise viable speedups in the foreseeable future, and destroying Internet security seems like a dubious reason to build a new machine. How can we use quantum computers to tackle the world’s big problems?” One alternative to cobalt is nickel.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Typical autonomous vehicle sensors are useless on snow-covered roads, but researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford are collaborating on a solution. LiDAR, on the other hand, is much more accurate than GPS, and can identify the Fusion Hybrid’s lane location right down to the centimeter.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

University of Maryland. The University of Maryland will leverage a newly invented, ultrafast high-temperature sintering (UHS) method to perform fast exploration of new environmental-thermal barrier coatings (ETBCs) for 1300 °C (2372 °F)-capable refractory alloys for harsh turbine environments. University of Virginia.

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. NC State University. Medical University of South Carolina. Columbia University. MIT, Bar-Ilan University).

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. Led by Dr. Marina Gashinova, the project combines novel low-THz (LTHz) sensor development with advanced video analysis, fusion and cross learning. Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles (HI:DAV).

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JULY 20, 2021

Bell had previously been at Northrop Grumman, doing spacecraft design and testing, and had researched electrodynamic tethers , including for use with CubeSats, as part of his postdoc work with Brian Gilchrest at the University of Michigan, where Bell earned his master's and Ph.D. Moving to his role at Cubic's Hanover, Md.,

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APRIL 25, 2024

“it’s gonna happen, but I don’t I don’t know if it’ll happen in your lifetime and mine,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez , an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Kansas. The University of Kansas team’s GoFly entry, called Mamba , had been one of 10 Phase I winners for best design. million machine.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?” The category mistake is obvious: A university is an institution, not a collection of buildings.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler has been expanding its network to universities with innovative instruments such as “Forschungscampus”, tech centers, shared professorships and industry fellowships and start-up incubators and accelerators. sensor fusion. A decisive topic here is the interaction of cameras, sensors and the associated computing units—i.e.,

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